According to Globocan 2012 (the new version of IARCs online database) the most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide were:
The South African cancer survival rate is 6 out of 10. Doctors use a five-year timeframe when they refer to ‘survival’. If cancer did not recur in the five years following either diagnosis or treatment, patients were considered to have become ‘survivors’.
The statistics we use here comes from South Africa’s National Cancer Registry (NCR) (www.nioh.ac.za). The NCR is under the executive management of the National Health Laboratory Service – National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH) and gives information about South Africa’s cancer statistics. The NCR plays a vital role in maintaining and developing national and international awareness cancer in our country.
We, CANSA and the SA public rely on statistics provided in the NCR reports.
Men
SA men have a lifetime risk of 1 in 7 to get cancer. The following cancers represent the top ten most common histologically diagnosed cancers in men according to the National Cancer Registry (2012):
Women
SA women have a lifetime risk of 1 in 8 to get cancer.
The following cancers represent the top ten most common histologically diagnosed cancers of women according to the National Cancer Registry (2012):
